atari2600land's Blog - That was fast

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The two Dreamcast games I ordered on Friday came today. It only took three days for them to ship it across the country. The first game is Magforce Racing. I had this earlier but the disc suffered a cruel fate when it stopped working. I still had the case, so I figured why not fill it up with another disc. Looking at it, under "Options" there's a demo of Super Magnetic Neo on it. Didn't play the demo. I have the game. I bet I'm behind the times if I ask if other companies did that: Put demos of other games on the same disc. And then the other one I got from the same guy was Who Wants to beat up a Millionaire? I guess Simon and Schuster was a second-rate game maker, even though I thought they were good at book making. This only Dreamcast game they did was one of about a dozen titles they published in the early 2000s, about half X-Box titles. I don't have an X-Box. I don't think I want one. They're huge. I don't know why they're about the same size as an Odyssey 2. Anyway, both passed the "Is it working?" test I give all my games I get. Now I have 42 Dreamcast games, none of them "big titles." I don't get complex games. I bought Odama for the Gamecube along with a mic. It's too difficult to understand, let alone play. I guess at precisely 2002, games took a turn for the worse as far as complexity goes. The Dreamcast is just near the beginning of that. Then you get titles like Call of Duty, Halo, Fallout, Tomb Raider, and other games like those. I'm a fan of games that only take a few seconds to figure out what to do. Perhaps that's why I like retro gaming.

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